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List of contents
IPA Project Committee on Clinical Observation and Testing -- Series Editor’s Foreword -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Introducing the Three-Level Model for Observing Patient Transformations -- The three-level model (3-LM) for observing patient transformations -- Leticia: the emergence of questions about herself -- Irina: an adolescent -- Observing and Working with the 3-LM -- Tracking patient transformations: the function of observation in psychoanalysis -- Depression and trauma: the psychoanalysis of a patient suffering from chronic depression -- Close to observation: some reflections on the value of the three-level-model for studying change -- Working with the third level of the three-level model: the incidence of our theoretical model on our clinical thinking -- A Patient, A Concept, and A Case -- A traumatised patient in analysis: observing patients’ transformations -- The 3-LM: A Case, Report, and Discussion -- Transformations in Paula with “no history” -- A report on Paula with “no history” -- Discussion of Paula with “no history” -- Clinical Concepts -- Some reflections on the three-level model: organising psychoanalytic knowledge through clinical observations and generalisations -- The assessment of changes: diagnostic aspects -- An Application of the 3-LM at the End of Analytic Training -- The three-level model in psychoanalytic training -- The use of the 3-LM to teach candidates to observe transformations in clinical cases -- Further Developments of the 3-LM in Child Analysis -- Three-level model for observing child patient transformations -- Brief guidelines: IPA clinical observation groups -- Clinical observation group, San Francisco (CO-SF1), May–August 2012 -- Suggested questions for group discussion -- Forms to be used before and after the group discussion -- Clinical observation work groups (2011–2013)
About the author
Marina Altmann de Litvan, PhD, is a child and adolescent psychoanalyst, a full member and training analyst of the Uruguayan Psychoanalytic Association, and a member of the Clinical Research Subcommittee of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA). She has been a member of the Education Committee and Co-Chair of the Education-Research Subcommittee of FEPAL, as well as Research Fellow and Visiting Professor at University College of London, Research Training Programme. She was also awarded the Biannual Exceptional Contribution Award from the Research Committee of the IPA for her research into verbal and nonverbal interactions in mother-baby psychotherapeutic process. She has published chapters of books and papers both in Spanish and English.
Summary
This book presents a research work on transformations in psychoanalysis and clinical observation of changes in psychoanalysis. It compares, based on the "three-level model", the different points of view of psychoanalysts from all over the world and from different psychoanalytical cultures.
